Q.6. Anna Jarvis started this campaign and was so disturbed when the concept was made commercial. She tried to copy right the concept but ended up without success. It is one of the most popular days for dining out in US and England which concept are we talking?

Ans. Mother’s Day

Q.7. Identify the logo.

Ans. Swiftkey

Q.8. It is a Kurta with half sleeves, buttoned up standing collar and fine net detailing on the shoulder seam. Or, a full sleeved one with buttoned cuffs. Jade Blue, a Rs. 150-re clothing chain owned by Bipin Chauhan and his brother Jitendra, has trademarked rights for this attire. What was this trademark kurta?

Ans. Modi Jacket

Q.9. Whose ancestral house is known as Kennelworth first housed TIFR?

Ans. Homi J Bhabha

Q.10. Identify the logo.

Ans. Versace

Q.11. What is made by fermenting vinegar with hot peppers in a French oak barrel, which has 3 inches of salt on the top and is aged for three years untill all the sauce is diffused to the barrel?

Ans. Tobasco Sauce

Q.12. Which Tata brand has the LIMCA record for airing the longest commercial on the Indian television?

Ans. Tata Sky

Q.13. Connect

Ans. Playboy

Q.14. Connect

Ans. Neutrogena

Q.15. Which business group has bought the trade and assets of Amtek Aluminium Castings (Witham) Limited and King Automative Systems Limited (Amtek UK) from administrators PwC?

Ans. Liberty House Group

Q.16. With the government’s stress on breaking the 150 years of British tradition for financial years to range from April to March, which state became the first to adopt Jan-Dec Fiscal Year practice?

Ans. Madhya Pradesh

Q.17. Identify.

Ans. Hercule Poirot

Questions contributed by Kumar Shivam. He is the founder of Serapis Infotainment.

Q.1. This brand was launched by Mina Bindra as a brand in 1988 and from wholesaling the brand to traditional retailers, it launched its first exclusive store at Inorbit Mall in Mumbai in the early nineties.

Ans. Biba

Q.2. The extract from these kinds of leaves, creates their brand. Extremely powerful brand especially in the rural areas of India.

Ans. Pan Parag

Q.3. Taj has a brand called & Beyond, what are they promoting in India?

Ans. Safaris

Q.4. Connect.

Ans. Chrysler

Q.5. The company’s first convenience outlets were known as Tote`m stores since customers “toted” away their purchases, and some even sported genuine Alaskan totem poles in front. What did it eventually become?

Ans.7-Eleven

Q.6. Connect.

Ans. Fiat

Q.7. This is a huge foundation in the world, followed in the memory of a great man, who changed the world of manufacturing.

Ans. Ford Foundation

Q.8. Identify.

Ans. Lady Navajbhai Tata

Q.9. The name originated from Danish “Leg got”?

Ans. Lego

Q.10. It is a river in Goa, which also leads to a cement company with the same name.

Ans. Zuari

Q.11. Pramod Saxena in partnership with South Africa based Blue Label Telecom founded this company in the year 2004. The objective was to provide payment services to the riral as well as urban population of India, through a digital wallet. Which entity?

Ans. Oxigen Wallet

Q.12. He is the CEO of?

Ans. Tata Motors

Q.13. Question on Lotte Chocolates

Q.14. Connect.

Ans. Braun

Q.15. He founded four internet sites – three sites included travel site, a personal shipper site and a site about the Ebola virus. The fourth one was called “Auctionweb”. What did the latter finally become?

Ans. Ebay

Q.16. Wild Company is a book on this company.

Ans. Banana Republic

Q.17. Which important institution or organisation in India is this?

Ans. Geological Survey of India

Q.18. How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy is a part title of a book by this economist.

Ans. Dr. Raghuram Rajan

Bonus Question:

Q.19. The name of the film is Inside Job. Raghuram Rajan plays a role in this film. What position is he enacting in the film?

Ans. Head of IMF

Q.20. Which tyre brand owns it?

Ans. Birla tyres

Bonus Question:

Q.21. Birla tyres was established in the 1990s and was a collaboration with a famous international tyre manufacturer. Originally it was called Birla P Tyres. What did the P denote in terms of their partnership?

Ans. Pirelli

Q.22. Who created a celebration flavour called Beatle Nut as a tribute to the Beatles?

Q.1. One of the first examples of product placement took place in 1873 when transport and shipping companies lobbied to be mentioned in which adventure story that involved a lot of travelling?

Ans. Around The World In 80 Days

Q.2. What’s the significance?

Ans. Marsha Albert, the Beatles fan and DJ Carroll James

Q.3. Connect.

Ans. Amazon

Q.4. Which Italian fashion house started as a small family-owned leather saddlery shop in Florence in 1921, launched global campaign for women empowerment called Chime for Change?

Ans. Gucci

Q.5. Analytical Question.

Ans. GST

Q.6. Satyug Gold is a company promoted by which Bollywood celebrity and her husband?

Ans. Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra

Q.7. ‘Plain Tales from the Hills’ and six other stories written by Rudyard Kipling were issued as the “Library Series” by its publisher. These were the first publications of Kipling’s collection of stories. Where were these books sold to cater to a large audience?

Ans. Indian Railway Library

Q.8. What are the headquarters of Deutsche Bank called?

Ans. Debit and Credit

Q.9. Significance of this image?

Ans. First Issue of Sports Illustrated

Q.10. In 1921, who was contracted by Milton Feld to start what he called Newman’s Laugh-O-grams, which was the first and probably only loss making venture of this gentleman?

Ans. Walt Disney

Q.11. This is the currency of which country featuring Hans Christian Oersted?

Ans. Denmark

Q.12. Analytical Question

Ans. CBI

Q.13. Identify the company?

Ans. Ford

Q.14. Connect.

Ans. Oreo

Q.15. “Without Reserve” is the in-house journal of which Government Organisation?

Ans. RBI

Q.16. Who is the author?

Ans. Harsha Bhogle

Q.17. Print ad for?

Ans. Premier Padmini

Q.18. Identify.

Ans. R Mukundan

Q.19. Identify.

Ans. Royal Enfield

Q.20. Analytical Question.

Ans. UTI

Q.21. Identify.

Ans. Tim Cook

Q.22. Connect

Ans. Instagram

Q.23. What?

Ans. Encyclopaedia Britannica

Questions contributed by Shivam Kumar.

He is pursuing B.Tech from Guwahati University. He was the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2015 East Zone champion and National Finalist. Check out his knowledge initiative called Quizzing India.

Q.11. Which Indian media company acquired American cricket broadcaster Willow TV International?

Ans. Times Internet

Q.12. It was in Florence that the wasp-shaped two wheeler was born, Enrico Piaggio having registered the patent in the Tuscan capital on April 23 1946. What?

Ans. Vespa

Q.13 Identify.

Ans. Karan Adani

Q.14. It has been the parent of website Rotten Tomatoes since January 2010. It is a social movie site alllowing users to share movie ratings, discover new movies and meet others with similar movie tastes. The site is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded by Joe Greenstein in 2007. Name the site which itself was acquired in 2011 by Warner Bros.

Q.1. This was a very famous printer and it was among the first which was used by this famous lady. What printer was this which she actually helped to create ?

Ans. Braille’s printer by Helen Keller

Q.2. In 1950, who was the exclusive designer of Marlene Dietrich’s dresses in the Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright?

Ans. Christian Dior

Q.3. Name the project.

Ans. Clean Ganga Project

[1. ‘GangaAvataran’ painting byRaja Ravi Varma. 2. Gangesis anature documentaryseries by BBC for television on the natural history of theRiver Ganges. 3. Logo of Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB)]

Q.4. What is an aspirational treadmill?

Ans. Princeton psychologist and economics Nobelist Daniel Kahneman mentions the “aspirational treadmill”, the idea that we simply readjust our expectations upward once we have reached a certain level of success. This would help explain why people who have a lot of money, or have a lot of leisure time, do not say on surveys that they are much more satisfied than do people who have less.

Q.5. Identify him.

Ans. Narasimhan Ram of ‘The Hindu’

Q.6. Which brand from Nahar Group’s flagship company, shares its name with an administrative area of the Prinicipality of Monaco?

[1. TBWA/Chiat/Day logo: Guy Day called Jay Chiat to discuss a merger with Jay Chiat & Associates. Day won a coin tossto see who would be the president of the new agency.

2. Wilbur looks on as Orville pilots the first powered flight : Both brothers were eager to pilot the first flight. A coin toss gave Wilbur the honour, but his attempt on December 14 failed. Orville was successful on the next attempt on December 17.

3. Hewlett and Packardtossedacointo decide whether the company they founded would be calledHewlett-Packardor Packard-Hewlett.

4. In the climax ofSholay, Veeru and Jaidev decide their next strategy over their encounter with the villains by tossing a coin (they are in habit of deciding over the affairs between themselves this way). It is revealed at the end that the coin used by him is actually a trick coin that always come upheads.]

Q.9. What gets its name from the fact that it uses three electronic beams to produce a colour picture through a single gun, and then focusing them through one lens ?

Ans. Trinitron by Sony

Q.10. Name the author of the book.

Ans. John Kotter

Q.11. In 2014, the UK subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages has acquired a 100 percent stake in the equity capital of Earth Rules, Australia engaged in coffee business under the _______ brand.

Ans. Map

Q.12. Fill up the blanks in this quote by Jay Levinson said this about someone: “Take Leo Burnett , David Ogilvy, Bill Bernbach and Mark Twain. Combine their brains and shave their heads. What’s left?

Ans: Seth Godin

Q.13. Identify the company.

Ans. Xiaomi (Lei Jun)

Q.14. Which individual was an exclusive customer of this piece of dental work that was created for him?

Ans. Marlon Brando for the film ‘Godfather’.

[This dental plumper , designed by Dick Smith and New York dentist Henry Dwork was worn by Marlon Brando to create the effect of jowls for his role as Don Corleone in the 1972 film , ‘The Godfather’]

Q.15.This Tata vehicle is known colloquially as DIMO Batta in Sri Lanka. (4,3)

Q.18. What idea of Scott Adam’s is attributed to the success and popularity of Dilbert comics?

Ans. Adams attributes his success to his idea of including his e-mail address in the panels, thus facilitating feedback from readers

Q.19. What is this?

Ans. Yakhchal or ice chamber

[Yakhchāl(Persianyakhmeaning “ice” andchālmeaning “pit”) is an ancient type ofevaporative cooler.By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert.]

Q.20. Name the style of this furniture? (Named after a middle age Empire / Dynasty)

Ans. Ottoman

Q.21. Connect :

Ans. Ajinomoto

Q.22. “ Keno” was the original name of this game and “Beano” was an early name. It was named named Beano because little red dried beans were used. These were used to cover the numbers. Native Amercians devised the team in the 1920s or 1930s. What are talking about?

Ans. Bingo

Q.23.These are toys which have been created by a company called Giant Microbes. It is to educate the world about what? (started in Africa)

Ans. Ebola

Q.24. Tie Breaker question: The number was 80586. In US, the law says you cannot trademark a numeric hence a brand was created. What brand name was created which later had a series to 1,2,3 etc. came into existence in this world because of trademark restriction?

1. Which Indian Businessman was kidnapped in 1997 in Ahmedabad and was also trapped inside Taj Mahal hotel when it was attacked on Nov 26?

Ans: Gautam Adani

2. Which country has the maximum number of LinkedIn users?

Ans: USA

3. Which website for Online shopping means ‘searching for treasure’ in Chinese?

Ans: Taobao

4. ‘The Course of my Life’ is the autobiography of which Indian who was closely related to RBI?

Ans: CD Deshmukh

5. What was launched in 1944 in the USA as a replacement brand by Wrigley due to rationing of gum-making ingredients in World War II?

Ans: Orbit

6. Which watch brand was used for the first time in sports during the international ballooning for the Gordon Bennet Cup in 1909?

Ans: Omega

7. In Pakistan, which brand is so popular for decades that the generic word used for any detergent is the name of this brand?

Ans: Surf

8. Which is the only card brand that is accepted at all Olympic venues?

Ans: VISA

9. Who was the first Indian Prime Minister who signed on currency notes?

Ans: Manmohan Singh

10. Who was the longest serving Finance Minster of India?

Ans: Morarji Desai

11. Whom did Esquire Magazine in 1960 describe as “lean, relaxed outdoorsman, a cattle rancher, a Navy Officer, a flyer, whose tattooed wrist suggested a romantic past, a man who had once worked with his hands, who knew the score, who merited respect”?

Ans: Marlboro Man

12. “It was 1983 and I was working with Indian Airlines when I happened to win a lottery to buy the first……..produced in India. Rajiv Gandhi, who was then a pilot with Indian Airlines, announced me the winner. I bought it as a gift for my wife Gulshanbeer Kaur”. What?

Ans: First Maruti car

13. ‘Urzza’ is an energy drink from which brand?

Ans: Bisleri

14. Who, in 1943, co-founded Travancore Chemical and Manufacturing company along with Dr. Krishnamurthy?

Ans: Dr. CV Raman

15. Who trademarked the phrase “India ka Tyohaar”?

Ans: IPL

16. “Sometimes there’s a bit of a pain in achieving more”, says this brand’s ATL campaign during Mumbai Marathon. Which brand?

Ans: Volini

17. Antonio Latini’s 1694 book of recipe ‘Lo scalco alla moderna’ had a handful of recipes using X and included the first published recipe for something using X. What?

Ans: Tomato

18. ‘Dil ki deal’ ad featuring Aamir Khan. Identify the company?

Ans: Snapdeal

19. The company was founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 and in 1910, became the nation’s first multinational company when it opened its operation in Spain?

Ans: Bacardi

20. Identification of logo of Google Maps.

Questions contributed by Kumar Shivam! He runs a Quiz Page in Facebook named Quizzing India (www.facebook.com/quizzingindia) and was the East Zone Champion and National Finalist of Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2015.

4. According to a research conducted in 2014 by ESPN The Magazine nd Sporting intelligence found which football club’s average annual wage the highest in sporting world ahead of New York Yankees and LA Dodgers?

Ans. Manchester City

5. Connect

Ans. Tata Steel

[1. Jamsetji Tata was born in Navsari ,then part of the princely state of Baroda.

2. Tata Steel commercial

3. Bombay house is the registered office of Tata Steel.]

6. The earliest known manufacturer of what alcoholic drink is perhaps Lucas Bols, who made it in a distillery called the Little Shed, outside Amsterdam in 1575?

Ans.Gin

7. In early 2014, which famous B-school launched the world’s first 24/7 radio station on business strategy and management which is broadcast to millions of subscribers through SiriusXM, the world’s largest radio service, and features prominent business leaders, public figures, and faculty members?

Ans. Wharton

8. Identify the Logo?

Ans. Food Corporation of India

9. This is the world’s only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative shipping contracts, and London’s Virginia and Maryland coffee houses in Thread needle Street.

Ans. Baltic Exchange

10. This is a theory that states that during periods of recession or economic downturn, consumers will eschew purchases of big-ticket luxury items and seek material solace in smaller indulgences, such as premium __________, and rightly called __________ effect. (Hint: 8 letter word)

Ans. Lipstick

11. Connect:

Ans. Aircel

[1. Chennai Super Kings : Aircel is the main shirt sponsor of Indian Premier League cricket team.

2.Theatrical trailer of the film Mary Kom : Mary Kom is the brand ambassador of Aircel.

3. Aircel was founded by C Sivasankaran]

12. This is Luis von Ahn. Which company was founded by him?

Ans. reCAPTCHA

13. It has its roots in the 19th century, when the US pharmacist Theron T _______ introduced a witch hazel-based “wonder product” known as _______’s Golden Treasure. What?

Ans. Pond’s

14. Connect the Indian Born entrepreneur.

Ans. Ram Shriram

[1. He is a founding board member of Google

Amazon ad: He earlier served as an officer of Amazon working for Jeff Bezos.

Shriram started Sherpalo,a venture capital firm that invests in promising new disruptive technologies]

15. _________money or ________currency is money whose value is not derived from any intrinsic value or guarantee that can be converted into valuable commodity (such as gold). Instead, it has value only by government order.

Ans. FIAT money

16. In the 1970s, it started as Children’s Bargain Town, as it began to grow its mascot’s family too grew with the introduction of wife Gigi, and their son and daughter Junior and Baby Gee. Figure either the company or the mascot.

Ans. Toys“R”Us andGeoffrey the Giraffe

17. This is Mr. Manal. Which company was founded by him?

Ans. Himalaya

18. In London, who is required to pass a training test based on The Blue Book, with preparation time being between 2-4 years? (Hint: 4, 6 letters)

Ans. Taxi Driver

19. Connect:

Ans. M S Dhoni

(1. He got a job of a ticket examiner in South Eastern Railway

2. Sourabh Ganguly talking about him

3. Nagarjuna is a key member of Mahi Racing Team India)

20. The book was written about which iconic company?

Ans. IBM

21. Retlaw Enterprises, later named WED Enterprises (WED) , was privately held company owned by the heirs of which icon and businessman?

Ans. Disney

22. Identify the logo?

Ans. Y Combinator

23. Who was the most expensive soccer player in Scotland in 1967 when Rangers paid £65,000 for him?

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